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Improving identification of crash injuries: Statewide integration of hospital discharge and crash report data

Improving identification of crash injuries: Statewide integration of hospital discharge and crash report data

Publications

Allison Curry and a team of researchers at CHOP and Penn aimed to link hospital discharge data with police crash reports to more accurately account for crash injuries. They found that each data source in isolation misses approximately one-third of injured individuals...
Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention to Reduce Texting While Driving Among Targeted Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Effectiveness of a Text Message Intervention to Reduce Texting While Driving Among Targeted Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Kate McDonald, Kit Delgado, and colleagues tested the efficacy of a 6-week text message program to reduce texting while driving for young adults, which was more effective as reducing self-reported texting while driving at 12 weeks compared to the control group. Read...
Ride-hailing and Road Traffic Crashes: A Critical Review

Ride-hailing and Road Traffic Crashes: A Critical Review

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A recent study led by PISC Past Trainee Christopher Morrison, PhD, and International Scholar David Humphreys, PhD, analyzes the impact ride-hailing businesses have on the incidence and distribution of road traffic crash injuries and deaths. Data is analyzed through a...
Space-Time Characteristics of Adolescents’ Cell Phone Use While Driving

Space-Time Characteristics of Adolescents’ Cell Phone Use While Driving

This study uses telematics to identify the spatial and temporal characteristics of adolescent cell phone use while driving, as well as the “risky driving” patterns that are associated with it, so that we can develop messaging and interventions to reduce...
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